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This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication. Check out these free, upcoming educational webinars and events from the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO):  Drive Thru Data: Using NLM APIs to Access Information Fast; Mike Davidson (National Library of Medicine); Tuesday, June 13, 2023; 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)  Reimagined:… Read More

This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication. Staff members from GPO’s Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) will be joined by Superintendent of Documents Scott Matheson at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, this June. GPO is hosting a special event for the FDLP community, and we would… Read More

GPO’s Superintendent of Documents, Scott Matheson, is pleased to share a video with you about GPO’s implementation of a digital FDLP. Follow GPO’s progress, and learn more on FDLP.gov’s Digital FDLP Implementation page.   Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) recently surpassed ten billion retrievals of Government information since the Agency started publishing information online. The achievement comes as GPO celebrates the 30th anniversary of the signing of the GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act. On June 8, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the act into law,… Read More

Beginning Monday, June 12, 2023, GPO is launching FDLP eXchange version 1.1, enhancing ease of use and functionality. Important information: Due to the need for data migration, FDLP eXchange will not be available for use June 12 -18, 2023. Users will not have access to the site during this time. Action item: If you haven’t yet done so, please consider extending the… Read More

U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library is working to add more than 47,000 unique items published by NOAA authors and grantees to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information. GPO shares NOAA’s goal of providing additional avenues to access Government research… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has kicked off its second Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) Pilot Project Initiative to help Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) libraries make Government information more discoverable for the American public. Through the initiative, GPO teammates are visiting partner libraries across the Nation to assess… Read More

Print records for 667 titles related to FDR-era Civil Defense (PR 32) have been added to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as part Pilot Project 1. These documents are currently being digitized and will be ingested into GovInfo. At that time, records for the EL versions will be added to the CGP as well.< To locate these records in the CGP, conduct an… Read More

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) posted a new set of all Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) MARC bibliographic records (1,051,805 as of April 2023) on GitHub. Brief bibliographic records, also known as brief bibs, are included in the files. The records are available in UTF-8 in the cataloging-records-all-cgp-utf8 repository and in MARC XML in the… Read More

This message has been cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication. Staff members from GPO’s Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) will be joined by Superintendent of Documents Scott Matheson at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, this June. GPO is hosting a special event for the FDLP community, and we would love to see… Read More